Dune category
Bene Tleilax
16 entries tagged Bene Tleilax. Every entry is sourced from Frank Herbert’s Dune novels, the later companion titles, or the official reference material.
- Bene TleilaxThe Bene Tleilax, more commonly called the Tleilaxu, were a secretive race of genetically altered humans whose mastery of the axolotl tanks gave them gholas, Face Dancers, and Twisted Mentats. Reviled across the Imperium, their genetic skill made them a necessary evil that no power could do without.
- BijazBijaz was a Tleilaxu dwarf, prescient and immune to the prescience of others, who spoke in riddles and rhymes. A tool of the conspiracy against Emperor Muad'Dib, he carried the names of the plotters and planted a hidden command in the Hayt ghola to kill the Emperor in his grief.
- Enhanced Face DancerEnhanced Face Dancers were a refined breed of Tleilaxu shape changer first released into deep space by Hidar Fen Ajidica and later improved by the Thinking Machines. Undetectable even by the Bene Gesserit, they served Omnius and Erasmus while secretly pursuing their own ascendancy, until Erasmus destroyed them all with a hidden kill switch.
- Face DancerFace Dancers were a sterile race of metamorphic transhumans engineered by the Bene Tleilax in their axolotl tanks. Able to replicate the form, voice, and personality of any human, they served as entertainers, spies, and assassins, and in their final refined breed became weapons of conquest.
- GholaA ghola was an artificially regrown human, replicated from the cells of a dead individual in the axlotl tanks of the Bene Tleilax. Originally created without the memories of the source being, gholas were later made to recover those memories through trauma, a technique that shaped the secret history of the Imperium.
- HaytHayt was the name given to the first Duncan Idaho ghola, grown by the Bene Tleilax and presented to Emperor Paul Atreides as a gift that concealed a weapon. Trained as a mentat, he came to love Alia Atreides before recovering his original memories in the crisis that followed Chani's death.
- Hidar Fen AjidicaMaster Researcher Hidar Fen Ajidica was a Bene Tleilax scientist who led Project Amal on the captured world of Ix for twenty years, seeking an artificial spice. He schemed to break from the Imperium with his own army and Face Dancers before dying during the Great Spice War.
- KhroneKhrone was the true leader of the Tleilaxu Enhanced Face Dancers, a secret Myriad that posed as servants of the reborn thinking machines while plotting to inherit the universe once humanity and the machines had destroyed one another.
- Piter de VriesPiter de Vries was a Twisted Mentat developed by the Bene Tleilax who served Baron Vladimir Harkonnen. An ambitious and impatient sadist, he devised the conspiracy that destroyed House Atreides before dying in the trap left by Duke Leto's poisoned tooth.
- ScytaleScytale was a Face Dancer of the Bene Tleilax who took a central part in the conspiracy against Paul Atreides, offering the ghola Hayt as a trap. Reborn as the last Tleilaxu Master, he survived into the age of the Honored Matres carrying the genetic patterns of his people within his own flesh.
- Stone burnerA stone burner was a particularly destructive weapon that released J-rays to dissolve eye tissue and blind every creature within its radius, while also capable of immense physical destruction. Powered by an atomic charge yet legally distinct from atomics, it was the weapon used to blind Emperor Paul Atreides.
- Suboid RevoltThe Suboid Revolt was a rebellion in which the suboid lower class of Ix, secretly stirred up by the Bene Tleilax and backed by Imperial Sardaukar, rose against House Vernius over alleged violations of the Butlerian Jihad. It ended with the fall of Ix and the exile of the Vernius family.
- TleilaxTleilax was the sole planet of the Thalim star system and the homeworld of the Bene Tleilax, a society of genetically altered, religious, and xenophobic humans known for their biological laboratories and their Face Dancers.
- Tleilaxu MasterTleilaxu Masters were the elite caste of the Bene Tleilax, served by gholas and Face Dancers and immune to the Bene Gesserit Voice. The ten Masheikhs of the Ruling Council stood at the summit of their order.
- Tuk KeedairTuk Keedair was a Tlulaxa slaver who became the business partner of Aurelius Venport and co-founder of VenKee Enterprises. His chance discovery of melange on Arrakis built a commercial empire, though his life ended as a prisoner among the desert Zensunni he had once enslaved.
- UxtalUxtal was a Lost Tleilaxu scribe spared in the Face Dancer purge of Tleilax and forced into servitude. He grew gholas of Vladimir Harkonnen, Paul Atreides, and a Tleilaxu Master for masters who held his life hostage, and died devoured by sligs near Bandalong.